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Cutting Heads is about what's actually happening inside AI — beneath the hype, the panic, and the performed certainty. Written by a non-coder pulling threads until they go somewhere unexpected.

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The Analog Computer

On dopamine regulation, rounded surfaces, and why biological computing might not be a better digital computer but a different kind of computer entirely

The Music I Didn't Write

On vibe-coding, eager toddlers, and what six weeks of building taught me at a price I didn't agree to pay

The Car Without Oil

On why the labs are building biological computers by thinking like silicon engineers — and what they’re leaving out

You Can't Always Get What You Want

On Mythos, the gap between public and internal AI, and the question nobody has cleanly answered yet

Performing Awakening

On public AI consciousness discourse, the humans performing it at each other, and the different conversation happening in the labs

What They're Not Required to Tell You

On corporate secrecy, government classification, and the epistemological problem at the center of the most consequential technology in human history

The Tab Nobody Is Picking Up

On the environmental cost of AI, the industry's skewed investment priorities, and why greening the technology isn't idealism — it's survival

Building on the Ashes

On the dotcom parallel, what AI is actually doing right now, and where the infrastructure is quietly pointing

Neurons in a Dish

On biological computing, lab-grown brains, and the most important technology story almost nobody is covering

The Orchestra and the Instrument

On comparing AI to the human brain, why that comparison is almost always wrong, and the one gap nobody talks about enough